dawnlight

The house was dusky with dawnlight creeping in around the edges of the blinds.

Of the two ships sailing toward North Korea, the 14,379 dwt Dawnlight, now renamed First Gleam, was heading to the port of Wonsan, after being anchored in the outer Yangtze River estuary near Shanghai until early on Tuesday.

Thong said the Dawnlight may still be listed as Senat’s property because the new owner has not registered the vessel under a flag.

He produced a notarized bill of sale signed by Lai and dated Sept. 21, showing that the Mongolian-flagged Dawnlight was sold to a Hong Kong-based shipping company called Bene Star for $2.2 million.

Even today, international shipping registries and the Tokyo MOU show the Dawnlight as being owned by Senat and registered in Mongolia, and a U.S.